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::>J..t::::::> I people in Colorado and in the other upper Basin states, it has become a Colorado River Basin bill. The upper Basin, particularly Colorado, has a very vital interest in the bill. We have five Colorado projects in the bill. We also have some protective language in the bill that will lead us, we hope, in get- ting our water ba~~ in the future from the Lower Basin. We have tried on numerous occasions to get an announcement made of the schedule of Senate hearings. Up to this point we have been unsuccessful. We tried one scheme two or three weeks ago, thinking well, we can put the heat on the Senate side through Senator Hayden, senior Senator in the Congress, also senior Senator from the State of Arizona, by saying that we thought that certainly by the time the bill is reported by the Subcommittee there should be an announcement of the hearings to be scheduled on the Senate side. The confer- ences between Senator Hayden and Senator Jackson from Washington, who is Chairman of the Interior and Insular Affairs Committee on the Senate sids, resulted in _a negative-response to that re- quest. Senator Jackson flatly said 'There will be no hearings on the Colorado River Basin Project Bill until after the House has considered the bill'. And upon specific in- quiry, what he meant was, after the House had acted upon the bill on the House floor. In other words, after the House has passed the bill. And I think the House is going to pass the bill. 1 We are up against this situation. Time- wise we are in some jeopardy. As Larry men- tioned to you a moment ago, on the l3th, this coming Wednesday, the full Committee of the House is going to consider H.R. 4671. I think I can safely predict, at this time, that it cannot finish its work on that bill this coming Wednesday for a number of very apparent reasons. The next possible date for the full Committee to act on the bill then will be July 20th, the